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Update~!
🕑 Added 2023-02-11 21:18:05 +0000 UTCHullo! Hope all is well.
I'm in better spirits! I've decided to leave Twitter for the foreseeable future, and I must say that I feel like that was the right choice for me. As someone who didn't really engage with an online landscape or social media in my teens or twenties, I don't think I was ever properly equipped to navigate a perpetually online experience (due to the pandemic). So, the last three years have really ate away at my self-worth (as a writer) and muddled my creative passion and goals. The only upside has been meeting a few cool people and gaining one really amazing friend and collaborator. That's it lol. So, goodbye Twitter, until I can regain a lot of what I have lost.
Anyways.
I'm currently working on chapter one of Part Two! I'm aiming to have it completed and uploaded either this weekend or next.
That being said, I realize The Three of Them is an oddball sort of story. It's a weird mix of novel-meets-short story cycle, and I know that may be confusing or not everyone's cup of tea. But since I would like this to be a graphic novel at some point (I honestly think it'd work better as such), this is the best I can do with this unorthodox narrative before I fashion it into a script.
I only bring this up because Birger's part has a lot of (sometimes unprompted) flashbacks, which I know can be disorienting. This is one of those cases where I'm writing...in a cinematic way, thinking more about the narrative in a graphic novel sense than a novel sense, and it's challenging working that into prose (not that prose can't be cinematic). Avery's part was a little like that, too, in the beginning, cutting away from flashbacks into the present at the haberdashery. Don't know how successful I was with portraying that, but I learned a lot.
I'm still debating if I want to share Brawling Love (a magical realism/bildungsroman novel about a former superhero rediscovering his passion for songwriting). Part of me wants to because I enjoy uploading here—it keeps me accountable and dedicated. But then I feel like it'd be a confusing experience for everyone? Having two vastly different stories on here? Maybe I could create another tier, but then I'd have to change my banner, which I love and I don't want to part with it. LOL. I'll figure something out.
Thanks for reading and sticking around! Much love.
